Johnson v. McKaskle’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 498 · 1984
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Green v. McKaskle (1986), Gillespie v. Crawford (1988)
20 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ruiz v. Estelle · Ruiz v. Estelle · Ruiz v. Estelle · Blair v. City of Greenville · Alexander v. Ware
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assert legal or equitable claims directly related to or dependent upon rights adjudicated and incorporated in the Ruiz injunctive decree.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) retain and adjudicate the equitable rights asserted..., (b) retain and adjudicate the legal rights asserted, if they are based on the terms of the injunctive decree and should be decided as part of any claims for equitable relief that the court adjudicates, (c) issue a show cause order for criminal or civil contempt and, if appropriate, impose punishment or award compensatory damages or other civil relief, or (d) return the action to the court from which it was transferred if it [is] determine[d] that the [Ruiz ] decree is not implicated and an independent adjudication in the separate § 1983 action is more appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“ensure a minimal, consistent degree of federal intervention in the affairs of the TDC, evenhanded, effective relief for TDC inmates, and the orderly administration of an injunctive decree by the court that authored and is administering it,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. McKaskle
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.